Encyclopedia of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine / Opening remarks by Yevgeny Nishchuk; Preface, the author's text of Vasily Marochka. – Drohobich: “Kolo», 2018. – 576 p.

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the scientific-memorial publication devoted to the Holodomor-genocide of the Ukrainian people in 1932-1933. The book reveals the causes, socio-demographic consequences of the Holodomor – genocide in Ukraine. Encyclopedia prepared in academic state. It shows the regions and districts of the republic covered by hunger, the activities of the direct organizers of the Holodomor. The researcher from the new positions managed to analyze the very concept of "victims of the Holodomor." – The author was argued and, according to the scientist, prepared the figures of the deceased during the Holodomor – more than 7 million victims of artificial famine and more than 18 million peasants with signs of physical and psychological damage. A positive point of the encyclopedia is a separate article devoted to cannibalism – a terrible phenomenon of the period of humanity in the republic. Dozens of such cases are found in the archives of Ukraine and abroad, the encyclopedia generalized the main processes in the investigated Ukrainian tragedy. The main task of the publication is to inform today's society and future generations about the Holodomor – genocide in Ukraine. The Encyclopedia of the Holodomor is the first such publication in Ukraine, but it does not exhaust the theme of the tragedy of the Ukrainian village in 1932-1933.